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Jute Industry and Railroad Plans Highlight Late 19th Century notes
The piece discusses rising jute imports into the United States from 1875 to 1880 and projected to reach 10 million dollars, detailing jute's properties, uses, and potential cultivation in the southern states and California. It also reports an American company forming in Boston to build the Sinaloa and Durango Railroad linking Altata to Durango via Culiacan, with Mexican government concessions and listed officers.
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Louisiana
United States
Ube
California
New Orleans
Loachaoa
Mexico
Sinaloa and
Durango
Astata
Gulf of California
Mazatlan
Mexican Central Railroad
Mesied
el Passo
Altata
Culiacao
Sinaloa
New York
Culiacan
Poten
Boston
New England
New Yok
Vresilent
Thomas N Hart
Eston
Robert Rayman
W Richardson
BP North
The
North American Review
David Dudley
Schaff
American Committee of Revision
Justice Strong
Supreme Court
Court of Appeals
U.S. Supreme Court
Circuit Courts
George
Juin Roach
Central America
M. Charvay